Solar in Scotland: generation and cost

Across the 32 places we model in Scotland, the median is 790 kWh a year for every kWp installed — against a UK median of 908. Individual towns and councils are listed below.

The median place we model in Scotland produces 790 kWh a year per kWp, against a UK median of 908 across all the places in our set.

Installed cost on these pages uses the region’s own mean in the official cost statistics — the full table is on cost per kW.

The largest places we model here

PlacekWh per kWpLive postcodes
Angus8744,032
Dundee City8474,473
East Lothian8433,307
North Ayrshire8334,263
City of Edinburgh83213,644
Aberdeen City8276,357
Fife82610,342
Midlothian8223,068
South Ayrshire8213,598
Dumfries and Galloway8206,922
Aberdeenshire8089,899
Perth and Kinross8065,519
Falkirk8004,176
Stirling7932,937
Clackmannanshire7911,343
Scottish Borders7904,532
East Ayrshire7884,004
South Lanarkshire7888,731
West Dunbartonshire7882,411
Moray7863,399

Postcode counts are a size proxy from the ONS Postcode Directory, not population.

What varies within a region

More than between regions, usually. Two houses in the same town can differ by more than the gap between Scotland and the national median, because orientation, pitch and shading dominate — which is why every place page here ends by pointing at the calculator rather than at a headline number.

Sources

  1. PVGIS 5.3 European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Accessed 20 August 2026 One run per place at its own postcode centroid. Contains modified Joint Research Centre data.
  2. Solar photovoltaic (PV) cost data Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Accessed 20 August 2026 · OGL v3.0

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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